Yes, exactly, thanks for summing it up so concisely!
Where did I even mention exercise and diet?
Wow, this takes me back to my MTV watching days lol
This made me think of
Also, fuck trying to inflict ABA sort of bullshit on ADHD'rs as well as autists, it's ableist from the core and is all about making us "productive members" of ableist capitalist society, rather than happy well cared for individuals, and is a huge contributor to stress and feelings of inadequacy and of being burden.
Sure, coping strategies are good and important, but they should solely be to benefit the patient, not make the patient more beneficial (and acceptable) to others.
The more inclusive and accessible society is, the less stress marginalised people are exposed to for being "other".
I don't disagree about the "small" ways being necessary, but so is violence, and any message that leaves that part out (or whitewashes history and the fact that oppression has never ended without the oppressed violently fighting back) is dangerous and oppressive.
Fortunately I'm not in the US, unfortunately fascism is rising everywhere, and arming myself here isn't really an option (I am also disabled and unable to personally safely handle a firearm), but I completely agree with you, and think all marginalised people who can arm themselves, should.
Ah, yes, "not all white people!!12*"
But somehow also "not only white people!!11" (my morbid curiosity kinda wants to know who the fuck else you think christo-fascist white supremacy* is serving, benefitting and protecting, but my sanity demands I don't engage with you any further).
Which amasses to "I'm too busy centring myself* and my whiteness*, and finding a way to claim some victimhood in this situation, to hear what those who are actually under attack are saying"
Check your fucking privilege*.
That is if you're even willing to examine your white fragility
*If anyone needs image descriptions, please ask
This is the way.
“The technology that was intended to free us has become the tool of our own oppression,” he said during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “The social media that was supposed to bring unity, clarity and democracy have instead given us division, vice and a reactionary agenda.”
This is very telling.
The technology was never intended to free "us", it was intended to make money.
Facebook was literally invented as a tool to bring misogyny to uni students, not unity nor democracy to anyone.
And from the very second they realised they could, those who own social media platforms literally jumped at the opportunity to sow division and influence politics, again, for money (and the power that comes with it, and with essentially being a mouthpiece for fascism).
Honestly, it's getting really fucking old seeing all these people in positions of power try to oppose these latest developments but only being able to muster the most superficial of criticisms and while flat out refuse to acknowledge, never mind address, the long standing underlying systems that enabled them (or for how long, this isn't new, before social media it was, and still is regular main stream billionaire owned media), and that will continue to enable them even if the current dictators running amuck are stopped. Because these people in the positions of power need those very same systems to maintain their own power, and will never fully commit to oppose them, which is what those of "us" they're acting like saviours to, actually need.
Sure, and absolutely, not everyone would need to actively be on the front line of an armed insurgency, but don't fool yourself - this regime, and the systems that enabled it, will never go anywhere without one.
Lmfao, you seriously underestimate the cognitive dissonance it takes to function at that level. If anything, he's probably even more convinced that he is the saviour of humanity than some random business owner.
No.
People who "agree with you in the goal you seek, but cannot agree with your methods of direct action" or demand we "wait for a better season" are a huge part of the problem, not the solution, and I couldn't give two shits if they don't like the idea of marginalised people arming ourselves in self defence of a danger they are actively enabling us to face.